Amusing Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a…

— Clint Eastwood

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with…

— Balachandra Menon

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people…

— Stephen Dorff

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

— Nia Long

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

— Mike Colter

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

— Jason Reitman

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make…

— Elizabeth Bowen